Video: Anniversary of Reid’s Greatest Moment

posted at 11:36 am on April 20, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

It’s not often that a United States Senator declares that the American military have been defeated in the field and demands that the President surrender and retreat from the Senate floor. In fact, we can call April 20th Harry Reid D-I Day — for Defeat in Iraq. Two years ago, the shrill Majority Leader demanded an end to the “surge” strategy that would later prove successful in stabilizing Iraq and an immediate withdrawal of all American troops:

The Senate debate on Iraq grew sharper Thursday when Majority Leader Harry Reid said the war had been lost and that President Bush’s troop buildup is not stemming the rampant violence. That statement prompted Republicans to declare that Democrats do not support the troops in Iraq.

“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” said Reid.

The White House called Reid’s remarks “disturbing” and a slap at troops who are risking their lives.

“Disturbing” is the mildest description that applied. In the end, General Reid proved himself something less than a military genius two years ago today, and more of an idiot than at any other time of his political career.

Update: JD Johannes recalls D-I Day and his reaction while actually being in Iraq when Reid attempted his surrender.

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“Disturbing” is the mildest description that applied. In the end, General Reid proved himself something less than a military genius two years ago today, and more of an idiot than at any other time of his political career.

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” (attributed to Bill Gates)
“I did not have sex with that woman” (Bill Clinton)
“I invented the internet” (attribute to Al Gore)
“I’m 100% not guilty” (OJ Simpson)
“I am a Republican” (Colin Powell)
“I believe in the free market” (Obama)
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” (Gerald Ford)
“I am not a crook” (Richard Nixon)
“We are committed to an end to poverty” (LBJ)

“The war is lost” (Reid) is the biggest boner of all of them. But it doesn’t seem to bother him much. He’ll just pretend he never said it.

That’s when I vowed never to vote for another Democrat, ever, unless they change their ways. I used to vote for some of the county-level incumbents who were Dems if they hadn’t goofed up. After the way the Dems poliiticzed the war–never again.

No joke. You are the ever-present troll. While other trolls get hungry, sleepy, and pass out under their respective bridges, you are here on HA, patrolling the threads — keeping the conservatives in line at threat of bad troll breath.

Hey Getalife: You say that W changed the course in RESPONSE to Reid? I suggest you reexamine your head. The quoted video is Reid replying to Bush’s surge–which won the war. In other words, Reid is trying to stop the winning strategy.

You, sir, are a moron. W changed his course BEFORE This statement. Defend it if you can.

As far as Reid is concerned, President Bush did lose the war, he lost by not having the Republicans re-elected.
Reid didn’t care about the war, he (and his ilk) don’t care about the military, about the economy, about the jobless, about people losing their homes, or jobs…he is only worried about getting re-elected, and keeping power.
If it means accusing the military (like Murtha did) of murder, it doesn’t matter, if it means totally bankrupting our nation, it doesn’t matter…only retaining power, that is what is important.
Inner city schools? They educate the blacks…let them fail. Educated blacks will begin to vote Republican.
Failure is the democrats success, they feed off it.

get-a-clue, do you take stupid pills every morning? You do realize that the troop surge strategy had already been implemented despite attempts by Reid, the left, et al to block it, yet you say it got W to change his course?

Also, if I’m not mistaken the surge wasn’t at full strength at the time Harry “I’m a traitor stooge” Reid announced the war had been lost! How convenient it must be to be able to declare a strategy a failure that hadn’t even been given enough time to prove itself, it was obvious he placed scoring political points above our troops!

So if what you say is correct get-a-clue, that Reid said what he did to force W to change his course well then answer me this; why would Harry say the war is lost and the surge strategy is not working if his goal (as you state) was to get Bush to change his course? Just like you get-a-clue, that logic doesn’t make sense, but then again that’s nothing new with you!

You need some serious help get-a-clue, before I used to just think you were blind and stupid, but now I fear you have suffered some sort of severe brain trauma as it’s the only thing that can explain such idiocy!

This is what I was talking about. The article mentions Romney getting rid of the “too many houses” issue for a 2012 run, but it would also make sense for him to sell the house in Utah if he was going to buy “next door” in Nevada.